Well you had a nice putt or two and a couple of pars. And a few laughs. I'll probably play gutties eventually. Pardon these comments for not being related to the video, but for the love of hickory. I am super green with hickories and learning fast. Accumulating clubs has given me some questions for which I trust you might have good answers. I just received my newest batch of hickories! Another Spade Mashie--and it's short-shafted. I just put all my hickories together for comparisons and found that I have four mashie-niblick type (including the spade mashies) on putter-length shafts. This last batch had a great heavy niblick and a "Bakspin" deep-grooved mashie niblick on proper length shafts. The first spade mashie I bought was on a putter-length shaft. I had assumed it was cut-down at some point, but now seeing such a high-percentage of them on short wood, I'm thinking it was a common thing to use for a chipping iron. Is your experience anything like this? I've got plenty for my bag now, just have to finish fixing 'em up and sort out the ones I like the best/work the best. My newest niblick is a real turf biter and quite heavy. It's going to be treated as a sand iron, there and in heavy rough it should be great.
Thanks for watching, Wade! We had a good time even though we were exhausted. Spade mashie are nice clubs but they don’t follow the same rules as other clubs as far as loft and length correspondence is concerned. That’s because they’re a specialty club with the purpose of extracting a ball from rough with some distance. The loft generally slots them between a mashie and mashie niblick but they often have heavier heads and deeper faces for handling thicker rough. This is why you’re finding them with shorter shafts. My recommendation with them is to play it a bit and find the most comfortable length where you can swing it comfortably and still feel the weight - aim for a swing weight in the mid to high D range. That way, you can still use it for full shots but also as he trouble club it was designed to be. A nice heavy one with more loft - up to the mid 40s - is also a good substitute for a niblick out of the sand. They don’t dig as much and still have weight to move a lot of sand.
@@TheHickoryHacker I actually liked the 4 club challenge at a certain "tournament" in Florida. But tough part be getting the ball. $20 from McIntyre is, well, eh??? But I think 2 "should" be enough.
@@TheHickoryHacker I was thinking bout getting the vardon flyer gutty ball to use. I know you used the other one, but have you used the vardon by chance?
@@lukefisher7890 I tried the Vardon bramble a while ago and the brambles marked up my wood pretty good. If you have a leather insert in the face of your wood, you’ll be good, but I don’t so I’ve stayed away from it. It’s fine with irons, though.
Hey Chistian nice round, and you always pull out a 30 footer lol, was your partner using a Park as well? I ordered sone Braids for hairy holes where I may possibly lose one and ordering a sleeve of Parks for the impossible even more me to loose holes.
Thanks, Kris! Good idea on getting both. It really hurts to lose a Park. Honestly, they cost more individually than some of the clubs I’ve found at flea markets. 😂 Seriously, though, I know how much time goes into making them so the cost is justifiable. Really, you only have to worry about holes where there’s water or thick brush. As long as you keep it in front you, the limited distance helps you keep an eye on it.
Looks like paradise. Come back, summer!
I can’t wait for weather like this and green grass, too!
Man that last hole was a train wreck - I was so flipping exhausted! 🤣🤣
😂 every swing was an effort on that one. Made me realize watching this this that I’ll need to boost the stamina for Scotland.
Harbor Point looks like a lovely course. The evening seemed so pleasant, like you were the only two on the course. Beautiful vlog Christian!
Thanks, Brad! It deserves the full 18-hole course vlog treatment. Hopefully I can get back up there sometime to do it.
Well you had a nice putt or two and a couple of pars. And a few laughs. I'll probably play gutties eventually.
Pardon these comments for not being related to the video, but for the love of hickory. I am super green with hickories and learning fast. Accumulating clubs has given me some questions for which I trust you might have good answers.
I just received my newest batch of hickories! Another Spade Mashie--and it's short-shafted. I just put all my hickories together for comparisons and found that I have four mashie-niblick type (including the spade mashies) on putter-length shafts. This last batch had a great heavy niblick and a "Bakspin" deep-grooved mashie niblick on proper length shafts. The first spade mashie I bought was on a putter-length shaft. I had assumed it was cut-down at some point, but now seeing such a high-percentage of them on short wood, I'm thinking it was a common thing to use for a chipping iron. Is your experience anything like this? I've got plenty for my bag now, just have to finish fixing 'em up and sort out the ones I like the best/work the best. My newest niblick is a real turf biter and quite heavy. It's going to be treated as a sand iron, there and in heavy rough it should be great.
Thanks for watching, Wade! We had a good time even though we were exhausted.
Spade mashie are nice clubs but they don’t follow the same rules as other clubs as far as loft and length correspondence is concerned. That’s because they’re a specialty club with the purpose of extracting a ball from rough with some distance. The loft generally slots them between a mashie and mashie niblick but they often have heavier heads and deeper faces for handling thicker rough. This is why you’re finding them with shorter shafts. My recommendation with them is to play it a bit and find the most comfortable length where you can swing it comfortably and still feel the weight - aim for a swing weight in the mid to high D range. That way, you can still use it for full shots but also as he trouble club it was designed to be. A nice heavy one with more loft - up to the mid 40s - is also a good substitute for a niblick out of the sand. They don’t dig as much and still have weight to move a lot of sand.
Great... now I got the urge to take mine out. Gotta do some refurb work on a iron and the Putter. But got just enough gutty Era clubs to do a round.
Yep - you don’t need more than two or three clubs plus the putter to get the full gutty experience. Less is definitely better.
@@TheHickoryHacker I actually liked the 4 club challenge at a certain "tournament" in Florida. But tough part be getting the ball. $20 from McIntyre is, well, eh??? But I think 2 "should" be enough.
@@TheHickoryHacker I was thinking bout getting the vardon flyer gutty ball to use. I know you used the other one, but have you used the vardon by chance?
@@lukefisher7890 I tried the Vardon bramble a while ago and the brambles marked up my wood pretty good. If you have a leather insert in the face of your wood, you’ll be good, but I don’t so I’ve stayed away from it. It’s fine with irons, though.
@@lukefisher7890 Yeah, I only got play the Park ball on wide-open courses where there are few opportunities to lose it.
Hey Chistian nice round, and you always pull out a 30 footer lol, was your partner using a Park as well? I ordered sone Braids for hairy holes where I may possibly lose one and ordering a sleeve of Parks for the impossible even more me to loose holes.
Yepper, I was playing a Park as well.
Thanks, Kris! Good idea on getting both. It really hurts to lose a Park. Honestly, they cost more individually than some of the clubs I’ve found at flea markets. 😂 Seriously, though, I know how much time goes into making them so the cost is justifiable. Really, you only have to worry about holes where there’s water or thick brush. As long as you keep it in front you, the limited distance helps you keep an eye on it.